GC23WA9 Adventure of the dancing (wo)men (Unknown Cache) in Washington, United States created by mountainman38

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mountainman38: I'm sad to say that this cache is no longer available. I believe the cache itself is still in place, but that place is under several feet of dirt, due to some sort of construction process.

I thoroughly enjoyed creating this puzzle (my first), and hope to be able to one day use it again somewhere else.

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Hidden : 4/2/2010

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Size: Size: small (small)

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It was a cold and dark winter's evening at 221 Baker Street. Rain beat steadily at the curtained windows, making the world a shivery cloak beyond the walls.

While outside all was cold and blustery, our bachelor quarters were warm and snug, with a crackling fire upon the hearth. Holmes was curled up in his chair with his head sunk low, and if it weren't for his long arm reaching out from time to time to retrieve tobacco for his pipe, I should have believed him asleep for the last hour.

I was contentedly working on my memoirs, chronicling one or two small adventures that Holmes had enlisted my aid with. This quiet idyll was interrupted by the sharp ding of Holmes' new geocache alert. Upon purchasing his Alienware PC from a merchant in Hyde Street, his first order of business had been to set his email to alert him as soon as a new cache was published.

Holmes had quickly discovered that puzzle caches were often used by the criminal element to convey hidden messages to one another. He had often been able to thwart some heinous crime by being the first to find these puzzle caches, so he was ever alert to the challenge of a new puzzle.

Such a cache had just been published, and Holmes' lethargy of the evening started to fade as he studied the latest cache details. "I say, Watson!" cried he. "Have you ever seen such a strange and confused thing? Why, this code appears to have been made by a child, or a madman! Really, the thing is most extraordinary."

I had risen quickly from my chair, as I was keen on observing this new mystery for myself. As I looked over his shoulder, I could see on the screen what looked like crude dancing figures. I was quite as taken aback as the master detective. Never had I seen such a thing: what appeared to be men and women twitching and flapping in a very odd manner. Try as I might, neither head nor tail could I make of it.

At first, the great detective was quite baffled by this seeming child's game. What sinister plot could be concealed by such a simple device?

Suddenly, my old friends countenance cleared, and a smile broke forth. "Aha! I believe I have it. Yes, quite so. Clever, most clever. Ah, Watson, you appear troubled. Have you never seen such creatures? Surely, a man with your military experience should have no trouble deciphering this simple code!"

My good humor tried by Holmes' jibe, I determined to master this code on my own and prove to the master detective that I too was capable of breaking this code.

However, long as I looked on these strange and grotesque figures, I could make nothing of them. Holmes' moment of clarity completely eluded me, it saddens me to say.

Can you help poor Watson decipher the code, and find your way to the cache? Here is what he saw on Holmes' screen:

Congratulations to Penfield Party for the FTF

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Jung qb n gur perngbef bs n snzbhf abegu/fbhgu yvar, gur yrnqre bs n jrfgrea rkcrqvgvba (jvgu X9 Frnzna), naq gur nhgube bs "Ba Jnyqra Cbaq" unir va pbzzba?

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

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